Text Chapter 341, Year-end Inventory, II
Li Xiaolong's arrival brought hope to Jiahe, which was about to be disbanded at the end of the mountain.
In order to prevent others from poaching, Zou Daheng took care of Li Xiaolong, and even gave his Rolls-Royce to Li Xiaolong, and Li Xiaolong lived up to expectations.
On October 3, 1971, the movie "Big Brother Tangshan" starring Li Xiaolong premiered in Hong Kong, bringing a new sensory stimulation to the audience.
In the film, Li Xiaolong fights with the villains, and the audience is fascinated by the charismatic martial arts gimmicks such as one-to-ten, fast and sharp three-legged roundhouse chain kicks, volleying feet, and high-pitched howls, and the theater will burst into cheers almost every few minutes.
In the end, the film won 3.19 million at the box office, breaking the Hong Kong box office record that year, and the production cost was only 100,000 US dollars, or 450,000 Hong Kong dollars.
In March 1972, "Jingwumen" combined Li Xiaolong's kung fu charm with extremely exaggerated national sentiments, making the film also a great success, not only breaking the Hong Kong box office record set by "Tangshan Big Brother", but also attracting the attention of Japanese film companies, bringing "Jingwumen" to Japan.
The Japanese worship the strong, although Chen Zhen played by Li Xiaolong beat the Japanese in the movie, but the Japanese audience just likes him.
"Jingwumen" detonated the Japanese film market as soon as it was released, and after that, Li Xiaolong's several films set discourse film records in Japan. While making a lot of money, Jiahe also successfully signed a contract with a Japanese film company and successfully entered the Japanese market.
Jiahe's entry into the Japanese market relies on Li Xiaolong, and Lei Weidong!
In Zou Daheng's opinion, although the current newcomer Cheng Long is good, he is still far worse than Li Xiaolong, at least European and American audiences like Li Xiaolong's fist-to-flesh action movies, like Cheng Long's playful action movies, Hollywood can accept it is still unknown.
And in Japan, Cheng Long is a little-known newcomer, what did Lei Weidong use to impress the executives of those Japanese film companies and distribute "Serpentine Trickster".
It's just that Zou Daheng forgot that Lei Weidong is not an ordinary film company boss.
For Lei Weidong, movies are just his sideline, and comics are Lei Weidong's main industry. In Japan, the kingdom of comics, because of the hot sales of comics such as "Fist of the North Dipper", "City Hunter", "Sailor Moon" and "Transformers", it can be said that Lei Weidong's fame in Japan is no less than that of Li Xiaolong.
Moreover, Lei Weidong's connection with Japanese comic companies and toy companies is far beyond Shao Daheng's imagination, and these companies all rely on Lei Weidong to make money.
Since Lei Weidong has something to help, of course these companies have to help.
Both Co., Ltd. and Shogakukan are companies that have been established in Japan for more than ten years or even decades, and they can be said to be the head snake of Japan, and they are inextricably linked in Japan.
Under their operation, Lei Weidong easily got into a relationship with Shochiku Pictures and Kadokawa Pictures, and the two companies arranged hundreds of theaters for "Serpentine Trickster" without even watching the sample films, and signed a long-term cooperation agreement.
It can be said that relying on Xiaomi's network, Bigao Company easily opened the Japanese film market.
And Cheng Long's movie "Drunken Fist" filmed after "Serpentine Trickster" was also rave reviews after its release in Japan at Christmas, although it has not yet been painted, it can be said that the achievements will never be inferior to "Serpentine Trickster", and Cheng Long's big brother can be said to have secured the position of Hong Kong's number one martial arts superstar.
Compared with Hong Kong's Bigao Company, the American film company MSI Films has also developed well.
After the success of "Moonlight Panic" in the summer, "Friday the 13th", which was released on Halloween, was also extremely popular, scaring those young men and women who wanted to be scared on Halloween half to death, and the box office was also rising, and it was the box office champion of Halloween, making MSI make a lot of money.
And several other horror films that the company has invested in have also performed well, and it can be said that now MSI has established itself in the highly competitive Hollywood and established its own style. attracted a large number of directors who are good at shooting horror films to join, which deepened the heritage of the satellite company.
Waiting for the release of the two blockbusters "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "First Blood" invested by Lei Weidong is believed to be more able to launch MSI's name, so that MSI will enter the ranks of second-rate Hollywood film companies, plus WeChat's own film distribution capabilities and Lei Weidong's relationship with National Entertainment.
I believe that in the near future, it is not a dream for MSI to become one of the eight major Hollywood film companies.
As for other aspects, not to mention the matter of taking shares in CAA and Transformers, just the cabbage doll made Lei Weidong earn hundreds of millions of dollars.
At the end of December '78, the sales of cabbage dolls in Europe and the United States reached 800 million US dollars, although it was not as good as the sales of 1 billion US dollars in 1984 in parallel space, but it was also surprising.
After removing the company's operating costs, production costs and taxes, as well as the money distributed to Citigroup and Merrill Lynch, Lei Weidong can still make a lot of $390 million.
The reason why he can make so much money is that in addition to Midea helping Lei Weidong reduce taxes, more importantly, Lei Weidong successfully avoided most of the taxes through entrepot trade through a trading company registered in the Cayman Islands.
Otherwise, the US Internal Revenue Service and Hong Kong's tax department would not have been able to let go of Lei Weidong, a big taxpayer.
Of course, Lei Weidong has made so many profits, naturally he will not forget the employees who work for him, at the year-end conference, Lei Weidong fulfilled his promise to take out 5% of the profit, plus Lei Weidong sold the cabbage doll and gave the old employees a reward of 10 million US dollars, it can be said that the old employee Lei Weidong is benevolent and righteous.
The development of Lei's supermarket is also gratifying, more than 70 branches have been opened in Hong Kong, and it has become the boss of Hong Kong supermarket chains, and supporting related industries such as flour mills, instant noodle factories, snack processing factories and other factories are developing well, and they are booming.
And what makes Lei Weidong happiest is that because of the change of mainland policy, Lei Weidong's toy processing factory has begun to open a branch factory in Shekou, which is only the first step, from this year Lei Weidong's factories will slowly relocate to the mainland, with the mainland's low human cost and three-year tax exemption policy, I believe that Lei Weidong will become the boss of the industry in a few years.
And these achievements are all done by Lei Weidong in just one year, I really don't know if I don't do it, I am shocked when I do it, the traverser makes money too much.
If you don't enjoy making so much money, you're so sorry for yourself.
Needless to say, luxury houses and luxury cars, let's talk about superyachts!